Anderson Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye

We learned about people like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington and Marian Anderson. Harriet Tubman was my favorite.

— Claudette Colvin

“Einstein also became a supporter of racial tolerance. When Marian Anderson, the black contralto, came to Princeton for a concert in 1937, the Nassau…

— Walter Isaacson

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary…

— Langston Hughes

“I named you Fauna because I loved Robinson Jeffers’ poem about Flora and Fauna. I asked that they keep that name. I wanted only…

— Fauna Hodel

My American mother and father dedicated their lives to their children. It is with their love and guidance that I adjusted to my new…

— Michaela DePrince

For me, as a mother, I am just, you know, I just can't put into words how important it is for every American, for…

— Michelle Obama

That's not what I want my children to hear. That's not representative of the country that I want my children to grow up in.…

— Chelsea Clinton

[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another…

— Jonathan Capehart

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have…

— Winston Churchill

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories…

— Jehane Noujaim

“It’s a life many people can’t imagine, but many people also sit in their cubicles daydreaming of a life they cannot attain. The costs…

— Betterway Home

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

— Leonardo da Vinci